Thank you very much, Peter! That did fix the problem. I hope the NetBeans maintainers can look at this scenario.
Blake On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM Peter Hull <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sept 2025 at 00:49, Blake McBride <[email protected]> wrote: > > NetBeans starts up just fine but when I try to open a project it hangs. > The bottom of the screen says "Opening Project." When I expand it it says > "Activating HTML5." At that point it just hangs. In fact, if I go to File > / Exit it doesn't exit. I have to kill the process. > Maybe not immediately helpful but on Windows, NB27 and JDK24 I didn't > see this problem. > > I think "Activating HTML5" is a one-off thing - are you able to create > a dummy new 'HTML5/Javascript --> HTML5/JS application' project in NB? > That would rule out it being the activation stage causing the hang. > > Pete >
